The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Enthused by the completion of a project worth Rs 1,280 crore six months before schedule, the World Bank has sanctioned another Rs 2,200 crore rural water supply and sanitation project for Punjab. Water Supply and Sanitation Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra said that this project would give impetus to the ongoing …
Tribal villages of Sukinda block and Badachana block in Jajpur district are facing acute water scarcity since the month of April. Since temperature is going up, the problem will be compounded. The villages like Dubikhala, Mangalpur, Ambadula, Lembu , Rankia, Bandhaga, Bamanagar, Pimpudia, Kharadi, Kaliapani and Chingudiapal, etc with a …
Village pipe water supply project remains inoperative for years in Nilphamari district. Sources said, such areas where arsenic contamination in the water is very high and where water is not available within 26 feet of the surface, in those localities, the project was undertaken throughout the country. In Nilphamari district …
The present paper attempts to evaluate the economic conditions of the farm households of Yavatmal district of Vidarbha region. The district has reported an increasing number of suicides during the period of Jan. to Dec. 2011.This is in a striking contrast with other districts of Vidarbha in which suicide rates …
Dodoma — THE government, through the Water Sector Development Programme, is implementing several water projects in 10 villages in all district councils in the country. The Deputy Water Minister, Mr Amos Makala, told the National Assembly here that implementation of the programme was being carried out in stages one and …
The World Bank today signed a $248-million loan agreement for the Punjab Rural Water and Sanitation Sector Improvement Project to help the state improve its delivery of water and sanitation services in rural areas. According to a World Bank statement, the project aims at providing a minimum of 10 hours …
THE number of people who have access to clean and safe water close to their homes in Rufiji district, Coast region, increased to 74.6 per cent last year from 51.9 per cent in 2005, it has been learnt. According to District Commissioner Nurdin Babu, the district has a total population …
Aggrieved villagers from the fluoride-affected and upland areas of the district staged a demonstration with empty drinking water containers made of clay here on Monday in an effort to draw the government’s attention towards their drinking water woes. Scores of villagers mainly comprising women from different parts of the district …
In 2050 there will be enough water to help produce the food needed to feed a global population expected to top nine billion, but overconsumption, degradation and the impact of climate change will reduce water supplies in many regions, especially developing countries, FAO and the World Water Council (WWC) have …
Luanda — The Water for All Project that started in 2007 is intended to secure drinking water to 80 percent of the country?s rural population. This was said Wednesday in Luanda by the secretary of State for Water, Luís Filipe da Silva. The official was speaking at the opening of …
This publication is being brought out once in every two years and covers a wide range of data on water resources and its related resources in the country. The last edition of this publication was brought out in 2013. It comprises five chapters and appendix tables. Summary tables and charts …
The State Government has approved Rs1.83 crore for implementing tap water projects in four villages of Bilaspur district under National Rural Drinking Water Programme. The approval had been provided for the action plan under financial year 2014-15. Notably, Chhattisgarh has been ranked first in the country for providing domestic water …
Drinking water is being supplied in tankers to 700 villages in seven districts to mitigate drinking water shortage, Revenue Minister V Sreenivas Prasad informed the Legislative Assembly on Monday. Replying to a discussion on drinking water shortage in several pockets of the State, the minister said the government had released …
The status on rural water supply was shared as Bhutan observed the World Water Day Water: About 13,732 rural households across the country are facing drinking water problem, according to a rural water supply inventory, 2014 that the public health and engineering division (PHED) conducted. Chief engineer Rinchen Wangdi presented …
The European Union and the Cross River State government are to spend N480 million on the provision of potable water in 20 rural communities of the state. The Institutional Expert, Cross River Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Reform Programme (WSSSRP) 11, Adebayo Alao, made the disclosure on Sunday in Calabar …
KALABURAGI: The state government has reconstituted rural water supply task force committees involving more public representatives at the Assembly constituency level to tackle the drinking water crisis during summer, according to highly-placed sources in the Rural Development and Panchayat Raj Department. The sources said circulars have been sent to all …
The Center today launched a National Rural Drinking Water and Sanitation Awareness Week at Village Kankrola-Bhanglora of Gurgaon District in Haryana. The week long campaign inaugurated by Shri Birender Singh, Union Minister for Rural Development , Drinking Water and Sanitation and Panchayati Raj will conclude at Kohima, Nagaland on 22nd …
Agartala, March 15: Despite declining sanction of funds from the Centre, Tripura is all set to emerge as the best implementing state of MGNREGA scheme. Disclosing this to reporters, minister for rural development Naresh Jamatya said up to March 13 in the current financial year Tripura had succeeded in creating …
The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has submitted a `5,019 crore proposal to the government for supply of drinking water to 110 villages in Greater Bengaluru. The detailed project report (DPR), ‘Water Supply and Underground Drainage System’, envisages supply of 400 million litres of water per day (MLD) …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on safe drinking water and sanitation in rural areas, 02/03/2015. Also includes the funds released by Government of India to the State Governments under NRDWP during current year 2014-15.
